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| Vines Topical Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23) |
 | | "covetousness," lit., "a desire to have more" (pleon, "more," echo, "to have"), always in a bad sense, is used in a general way in Mark 7:22 (plural, lit., "covetings," i.e., various ways in which "covetousness" shows itself); Rom. |
 | | lit., "money-loving," is rendered "covetous" in the AV of Luke 16:14; 2 Tim. |
 | | 24, points out the main distinction between pleonexia and philarguria as being that between "covetousness" and avarice, the former having a much wider and deeper sense, being "the genus of which philarguria is the species." The "covetous" man is often cruel as well as grasping, while the avaricious man is simply miserly and stinting. |
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